Contract seminar only at your location |
|
The Tower Access & Rescue Workshop 2 is an intensive "open enrollment" program designed specifically for regular work crews (4 or more) who work (or train others to work) at elevation:
- Tower or structural workers (crew of more than four)
- Tower erectors / steel erectors (crew of more than four)
- Working power transmission linemen (crew of more than four)
- Supervisors and Foremen
- Trainers
Intermediate tower worker rope access and rescue training workshop designed for working employees of tower company or utility (linemen or tower erectors). This hands-on 5 day contract workshop contains ALL training modules from TARW Level 1 . Emphasis on patient care both on the ground and while still in the air. See key points below.
Workshop includes RTR TARW Level 2 Certification upon satisfactory completion
TARW Level 2 key points:
(Bold indicates what is added over Level 1)
- Safety
- OSHA law on rescue and climbing
- Climbing steel
- Two-point contact principles
- Rope access (controlled descent and ascent)
- Knotcraft for tower workers
- Life safety rope and equipment, inspection and care
- Minimum tower rescue essentials
- Anchoring principles
- Self rescue
- Bucket truck escape
- Use of existing tower equipment and rope for rescue
-
Electrical power transmission towers and hazards
- Radio frequency hazards on telecom& radio communication towers
- Medical considerations & patient assessment
- Methods of climbing with fall protection:
- Double lanyard
- Advance-placed
- Lead climbing
-
Intermediate pulley systems (simple through complex)
-
Rescue options (team or solo)
-
Butt blocks and high directional blocks
-
-
Advanced anchoring principles
-
Rescue options (team or solo)
-
Tracking lines and skate blocks for use in rescue
-
Solo rescue; semi solo rescue
- Patient packaging at elevation
- Methods of raising—then lowering the victim:
- Vectoring
- In line pulley system
- Dynamic fixed brake appliance
- Patient packaging while hanging
- Patient extrication using LSP Halfback®
- Mid span conductor rescue
- Ground-based versus structure-based tower rescue
- Much more...
|
Above. Instructor, Reed Thorne, using solo rescuer pick-off techniques on de-energized 735kv tangent structure with Hydro Quebec transmission lineman, Claude Appointed during ESMO training in Montreal, Quebec Canada in October of 2000.
Photo by Jayne Thorne.
|
Above, TARW Level 2 participants from Northwester Energy training on 500kv "banjo tower" structures near Billings, Montana (Broadview Substation) Here, an elaborate tracking rope is used to bring injured line worker down between energized phases without breaking minimum approach distance of 11' 3"
|
Above, Orange & Rockland Utilities linemen in New York practice a skate block rescue technique on energized 345kv towers in RTR Level 2 program in 2003
|
|
5 Days
|
6 to 10 Students
|
Moderately difficult
|
Classroom 30%, Practicals 70%
|
Equipment: Company PPE's
|
| Prerequisites: Employee of a tower company or utility |
Tuition: $10,500 per program
|
|
